Name Ann Coulter's Next Book - The Winners
| By Campus Progress - Mar 1st, 2005 at 10:12 am EST |
CampusProgress.org is proud to announce the winner of our "Name Ann Coulter's Next Book" contest.In the spirit of Coulter's previous masterpieces such as Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right and Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, CampusProgress.org turned to its community of young people to craft the title for her next work of fiction.
The rules for the contest were simple: The book title had to be the same format as Coulter's books -- a single word, followed by an explanatory subtitle.
While the entires were all creative -- truly as unique and delicate as Ms. Coulter herself -- there could be only one winner. And that distinctive honor goes to 26-year-old UNC graduate Ryan Sniatecki of Baltimore, Maryland, for his suggestion:
"Roosevelt: Wheelchair-riding, America-hating terrorist"
For his efforts, Ryan will receive the grand prize -- his very own talking Ann Coulter Action Figure. Everyone here at Campus Progress expresses their utmost gratitude to Ryan, not only for participating but for the fact that the doll scares the hell out of us and we're anxious to get the thing out of our office.
In addition, our webmaster, August, will be reaching out to Ms. Coulter's editors with the winning entry and the honorable mentions listed below offering them all as possible future book titles. Any response from Coulter or her editor, cease-and-desist letters included, will be posted here.
Here's a selection of some of the best runners-up:
Pander: How character assassination and name-calling will make you popular and richWitchhunt: I Saw Liberals Speaking With The Devil!
Democracy: The Liberal Plot to Feed Your Children to the Poor
Liberals: Liberals, Liberals, Liberals, Liberals, Joe McCarthy
Damn: I can’t believe I get away with this!
Liars: “Charity,” “Tolerance,” and Seven Other Words Liberals Just Made Up to Confuse You
Help: I’m Out Of Liberal People, Places And Organizations To Hate
Crazy: Why My Divorce from Reality Should be Declared an Annulment and my Obvious Loss of my Marbles Should be Overlooked Because of my Extreme Hot Blonde Sexiness as Portrayed in the Many Posed Photos of Me on my Website, Even Though All You Have to Do is Look Into My Eyes To Hear the Whistling Sucking Void Where my Soul Presumably Once Was
Truth: lalalalala, I’m not listening!
Attack: Fly, my monkeys, fly!
Ann: Doesn’t Eat, Shoots, and Never Leaves
Keep checking Campus Progress for upcoming contests. And thanks for playing, everyone!
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(or most) today about the CampusProgress.org Ann Coulter contest, and reports that Ann has come up with her own troubling collection of titles for her next book.
time, someone turned her into a "buffoon."
Next time Coulter speaks publicly someone hould ask her about it, just as publicly.
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Published on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 by
CommonDreams.org
Haiti's Torment Ignored
In Haiti, 'hunger in dark places' is real ... and
ignored U.S. media, rights groups silent on
country's torment
by Mark Weisbrot
President Bush's State of the Union speech was
long on "the force of human freedom," which he
called "the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger
in dark places, the longing of the soul." Yet just
600 miles from Florida, that hunger and longing is
being met every day with bullets, beatings,
arrests and rape by the unelected,
unconstitutional government in Haiti. That
government's biggest supporter is the
administration of George W. Bush.
One year ago, Washington helped depose the elected
government of Haiti. The populist ex-priest
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's president, became
the first elected leader to be overthrown twice by
armed thugs supported by the United States.
The first time was in 1991, after he had served
only seven months as the country's first
democratically elected president. At the time, the
evidence of Washington's culpability was
circumstantial: The leaders of the coup were on
the CIA payroll. A death squad organization that
killed thousands of Aristide's supporters during
the 1991-1994 dictatorship was headed by Emanuel
Constant, who told the world on CBS' 60 Minutes
that the CIA hired him for the job.
This time, our government's role in the coup was
more overt. "This is a case where the United
States turned off the tap," said economist Jeffrey
Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Colombia
University. "I believe they did that deliberately
to bring down Aristide." Sachs was referring to
the cut off of funding from the Inter-American
Development Bank and World Bank from 2001-2003. It
was an unusually cruel thing to do: Haiti is
desperately poor, with the worst incidence of
malnutrition and disease in the hemisphere.
But it worked, in that it made people's lives more
miserable in Haiti. The economy shrank, and
Washington poured in tens of millions of dollars
through USAID, the International Republican
Institute and other organizations to forge a
political opposition. It was a movement that could
never win an election, but it controlled the media
and had some heavily armed former military
personnel - including convicted murderers - who
wanted to get back in power.
On Feb. 29 of last year they got their wish. As
their insurrection closed in on Port-au-Prince,
U.S. officials told Aristide they could not
guarantee his safety - despite the fact that they
managed to secure the airport with just a handful
of U.S. Marines. According to U.S. press reports,
they told Aristide he was going to a news
conference. They took him instead to the airport
where he boarded a plane to an unknown location,
which turned out to be the Central African
Republic.
The Bush administration's major allegation against
Aristide was that he allowed armed gangs, called
"Chimeres," to attack his political opponents.
Whatever the truth to these charges, they cannot
match the hell on Earth that is now Haiti's
existence.
The Center for the Study of Human Rights at the
University of Miami Law School conducted an
investigation in Haiti last November. Among the
findings: "summary executions are a police
tactic," and the jails are filled with political
prisoners "including the ousted constitutional
government's Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and
Interior Minister Jocelerme Privert." Many of
these prisoners are held without charge, beaten
and denied medical help.
Cite Soleil, a horribly poor slum of 250,000
people, is under virtual lockdown, cut off from
commercial traffic. Young men cannot leave for
fear of arrest, since the neighborhood is known to
support Aristide. People who are shot by police,
army or pro-government thugs treat their injuries
at home because anyone who shows up at a hospital
with a bullet wound can be arrested. Bodies of
victims can be seen in the streets, being devoured
by dogs and pigs.
The goal of the present government seems to be to
use violence and fear to intimidate the
pro-Aristide population, which appears still to be
the majority and who continue to demand the return
of their elected president. It is eerily similar
to the 1991-1994 dictatorship in both its
objectives and methods.
But they are making sure that, unlike last time,
Haitians do not escape the island to embarrass the
U.S. government by washing up - alive or dead - on
the shores of Florida. The silence here regarding
Haiti's torment, in the media and among major U.S.
human rights organizations, is deafening and
shameful.
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for
Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.
(www.cepr.net).
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They're the same thing: Extremists that lie to
piss people off to get you to talk about them and
then take your money.
no,not ever oh no, not me
and they know it (but don't have the integrity to
admit it). She LOVES all the publicity the fools
on the left give her. Like the MajaRushie says:
The left is only happy when bad things happen to
America.
from....
lame. Wasn't it FDR who led us into war? I
thought
liberals hated war, not Conservatives. I
thought
liberals wanted to avoid war at all cost, even
if
it meant subjecting America to foreign invasion?
I
thought liberals hated George W. Bush because
he
led us into a war against people who wanted an
end
to America. To me, FDR was a very similar
president to GWB. Why would Anne Coulter have
anything against a president who defended his
country? It seems to me that it's you leftists
who
would hate FDR, because thanks to him,
thousands
of Americans died, and America actually had to
defend itself. I think I would've picked a
better
title than that, but of course not only do
liberals not have a sense of humor, they just
don't
get it yet.
It's really quite refreshing.
Dubya is in the wrong place. FDR was the greatest
president this country ever elected and Dubya was
the worst, consequently not elected, but
appointed. Contrasting Dubya, FDR ACTUALLY
defended our freedom rather than just using that
as a marketing strategy.
The winning title was hilarious. It leads me to
wonder, though, how Ann actually does feel about
the quintessential American patriot.
Petition, e-mail, write letters, and protest, any newspaper and magazine, that "runs" Coulter's Column.
Do the same with her publishers.
Whenever she speaks anywhere publicly, petition the people, who are paying for her appearance.
When she does speak: PROTEST. If she is inside speaking, we should be outside "protesting."
During the Q&A, ask her the really tough questions. Common Dreams is a good source.
This would actually work well, with all the "right-wing" pundits.
One step at a time.